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BOOKS INHERITANCE FROM HEROD I YOUNG FRENCH HORSE, FULL OF HEROD BL00Dt MAKING A GREAT SUCCESS IN IRELAND WHEN MATED WITH ECLIPSE- DESCENDED MARES By EXILE But little outside interest, as a general thing, attaches to the decision of the "Irish 0am-I ridgeshire." However, this time the sire of the winner. Duff, is the Trench-bred Herod horse Book, a gray son of Palmiste and Diamond Agnes, by Hampton, which it would appear from ihfl above is a 100 per cent winning two-year-old sire. Ever an advocate of the binding of the blood plan of mating, this no theory or assumption of my own. turf history is my guide. I am l d to the conclusion that by following this plan of mating better and more satisfactory results ttn be had in the breeding of bloodstock than by any other plan of mating, never losing sight however, of the old-time rule of returning the best blood in the dam to the best blood" in the Jam of the sire. The Herod The Tetrarch, almost at the outset of his career, finishes up the season as leading British sire, and his best. Telratema. from the Eclipse mare Scotch Gift, by Symington; Americas best two-year-old. Man o War. is bred Matchem to Eclipse, by FairPlay Mahubuh! l.v Rock Bond, and by odds the best thre-year-old of the year. Sir Barton, is a son of the Lclipse sire Star Shoot, and his dam. Lady Sterling, by Hanover, that same Herod horse and srreat brood mare sire, Hanover, whose line apparently you rest content to no pass out. Having so well begun his career as a sire a full book is insured f.r Book next season, and stranger things have happened than that he should send forth something of quite the first class. Here is his pedigree: r tl.mtie | Tliormaiihy .... 4 ] Melbnie or Windhnd. .1 II , • Alice Hawthorn 4 ■ , Le Sanev... 4 i »-»-— * JS1 I Hurricane J Wild Dayrell 7 11 S gray. lsst M.i,!i;l » M -T i Strathconan ...11 Newminstir s i: . 0 • i.om of Corns ..... Souvenir 1 1 - ~1 ~ Poinsetti.-i i Young Melbourne ....25 M a . Lady Hawthorn. «±_J4 ~ * , lerplexe oi Yenuotttli 3- The Nabob 1J H — ■ , . " ■ Vermeille : K Pot pie ally .. :t ls-. Peilpetla i Otlao a ; 2 « iliv IKTR Ieronelle 20 11 ~ g • i King Tom 3 J Harkaway •• j. ** - n.iughier of * Pocahoataa SB M J / Mincemeat Sweetmeat a H g t Hybla "; k « u _ Lard Clifden.... L" I X«»"",*"r .... 8 J Touchstone It n Ueeswing s M. : £ r Hampton ...11 hay, 1000 | Tl. S1;1V. Melbourne l.x; Volley -j bay. 1S7L g - a Kettledruiu 3 J Hataplan :.. : y 5? I. I« ly Langden Hybla 3 k f Haricot .1 Uinercost 3 g — .- Queen Mary 111 11 ! | l.end 0* 1 n"""" »J «"k»eH 3 K = „ .. , - .Marigold r, v S ,"!;;1 1. *"■■■ 1S77 1 BongeKaae J Thomtanby 4 11 S " ■ Kll.-n Home 11 chestnut. 1089 . Macaroni 14 Sweetmeat ... » n 1. Windermere / forme 14 n I Mis- Agnes J Hirdcatciier 11 K Agnes It; II My object in writing of Books pedigree is that I am always interested and hope to interest • dhers in the preservation of the great brood mare line to Herod. Brood mares there must be-I he best are none too good, and these beat, many of them, such as Pocahontas. Agnes and v ueen Mary, are descendants of Herod, hence my especial interest in the welfare of any rising young Herod sire. Book as a race horse, though a rarely-bred one. was not conspicuously successful. On the -•rench turf as a ihree-year-old he won a coupb of races, two the following year and five when iive years of age. No big plums, however, fell to his lot. I am sure I do not know who was responsible for Books importation into Ireland, but wittingly or no, his landing is of great Benefit to Irish bloodstock breeding interests. A glance at Books tabulation shows him to b? an •musually well-bred horse, and one whose pedigree also suggests success as a sire, especially when bred to the prevailing Eclipse mares. Palmiste. Books sire, won the Trench Derby and is a son of that good horse Le Sancy, which I have heard it stated never sired a loser. Palmistes dam. Perplexitie. is by Perplexe! son of ermouth. also of the Herod persuasion. The best brood mare sire there" ever was! Macaroni, was another bred on this same Herod to Herod plan of mating, and Palmiste traces 111 the female line to Hybla. dam of Kettledrum, and this the immediate family of the Australian success. Abercorn. Mr. Pickwick. Winifreds, Tomato, etc. Diamond Agnes was sired by Hampton, and her dam. Golden Agnes, sister to Galtee Meres are, Kendal, by Bend Or Windermere, dam also of Muncaster. by Macaroni, and Book a member of one of the best families of all. the No. lti Agnes family. Only as recently as 18S3 did Bonny Jean by her Oaks victory register the first classic success for this family, which now numbers among its members such as Broomstick, St. Gatien, Sardanapale. Sceptre. Martagon, Desmond and Ormonde. Tor some time past I have had it in mind that the English thoroughbred horse was being nibred too closely to Eclipse and to maintain the standard of excellence an outcross of Heron v.as necessary. The success of The Tetrarch as a sire is a case in point, and should Book, as I hope and believe he will, shortly send out a few first raters, the value of the blend will be more than ever obvious. Annually I run out the pedigrees of a number of the best of our horses, but cannot recall ever having made a tabulation of a sire whose pedigree traced in the first thirty-two quarterlys so many times to Herod as does that of Book. No less ,han thirteen times does Book trace to Herod in his first thirty-two; his value, therefore, as a brood mare sire is at once apparent.. During the past few years any number of yearlings have been imported from the home of the Herodo, Irance. but few of these trace in the male line to Herod, and this an over sight now not so easily adjusted, for the French from now on are apt to be buyers in the place of sellers. The fate of the Herod line of Hanover perhaps is sealed, and if brood mare success u to come concerted effort must be made on the part of breeders to secure from abroad a few :- ale members of the house of Herod, it only for their influence as brood mare sires. The Matchem line by lair Play has taken a fresh start, but I promise you I shall not desist from calling attention to the virtue of the brood mare Herod strain until our breeders become stif iicienlly interested to import one or more colts which trace back in the male line to Herod. Harkaway. writing in London Sporting Life November -4. says: "The. chief race at The Currauh last we, k was the EfOO Hibernian Handicap, ami it was won by Mr. C. 1,. Mackeans gray three year-old filly Duff, by Book Lady Piersfield. and the style in which she secured the event left no doubt ■■ to her usefulness. She was carrying a seven-pound penalty for suc- ess at Leopardfltown, but despite that extra -he merely loved with the opposition. "Early this season 1 was at New Abbey, and then heard that there were 111 training a few : ,vo year elds by Book of which a good deal was expected. Expectations have been realized, j !or he had only four of that age to run for him and each of these has been a winner or winners, j namely, Grey Tip filly. The Drummer. Air Sprite and Grey Abbey, and now to complete his bst of successes his daughter Duff h:is won what is by courtesy termed the Irish Cambridgeshire. Grey Tip filly has been the best of Books two year-olds, and lur career has been some- j j thing of a romance, for she was bought out of a selling race for a comparatively small sum, and now she has changed hands for £4,000."
